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 Tuesday, Feb 28, 2006 5:41:55 PM
Resume: Gideon Marken I'm posting my Resume in my blog today because my current contract job is nearing an end. Feel free to point people here, I'll be available in 30-45 days.
Or - if you want to look at this from another perspective... I'm posting my resume to show my skills and present my work, because I'm looking for a Biz dev/marketing partner to join me in launching a company based around ArtistServer and the application it runs upon. If you'd like to contact me, please visit this page and use the contact form: http://www.markenmedia.com/#Contact
Gideon Andrew Marken IV
skype: gideonmarken
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General Skills
As an artist and a programmer, I provide both creative and technical skills. I work well with people, understand technology, and feel comfortable either taking the lead or following directions. I'm highly motivated, dedicated to my work, and have a passion for media. I'm also the type of person who sees the glass not as half full, nor half empty, but as an opportunity for change.
Experience
Owner/Administrator
ArtistServer.com (Sole Proprietorship)
2000 – Present
Planning, managing and developing a world-class music hosting service. Providing support to over 13,000 registered artists and fans.
Web Application Developer
Edmin.com (11-50 employees)
March 2000 – August 2001
Web application development and planning both on solo and team projects. Started the Edmin Standards Handbook, to standardize all aspects of development.
Contractor/Consultant
Web And Audio Productions (Self-employed)
February 1997 – Present
Application development, site management and project consulting on Web projects from large-scale relational database systems down to single corporate sites.
Web Administrator
ComStream (501-1000 employees)
February 1997 – December 1997
Responsible for the planning, development and deployment of the company Intranet.
Webmaster
ExcelSoft Technology (1-10 employees)
August 1996 – January 1997
Management of Web department, company site and client projects.
Interests
Spending time with my wife, playing with our dog Miles, reading, camping, listening to jazz, programming, writing/recording music, experimenting with media and media tools, improving things, helping people and learning.
Technical
14 yrs music recording and production (Guitar, Bass, Keyboards)
10 yrs Web development (HTML, xHTML, CSS)
10 yrs graphic design (Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator)
8 yrs Web programming (ColdFusion, JavaScript)
8 yrs Database (SQL Server)
8 yrs Windows Server: NT4/2000/2003 / IIS Server
3 yrs Macromedia Flash
3 yrs Video Editing/DVD Production (Premiere, Vegas, Encore)
2 yrs 3D modeling (TrueSpace, GameSpace, Unreal Engine)
2 yr XML, RSS, XLST
1 yr Linux, Apache, MySQL
1 yr WAP/Mobile Web development (xHTML MP, WML)
1 yr AJAX, AHAH/JAH
Education
National University
Masters , Educational Technology , August 1995 – May 1997
Graduated with Honors.
San Diego State University
Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences , Psychology, Minor in Child Development , September 1988 – December 1993
References
(available upon request)
Open Source
As a means to give back to the wealth of Web development knowledge and code I've benefited from over the years, I've started a few Open Source projects this year:
AddToBookmarks.com – a JavaScript solution to assist site visitors with bookmarking your content using social bookmarking sites.
OhMyGUI.com– this project will provide a complete GUI framework for Web developers. The goal here is to help people create good looking sites that validate, contain all the JavaScripts one would generally need, in addition to providing them with a series of layout templates. OhMyGUI supports Ajax, AHAH/JAH and more!
2005 Accomplishments with ArtistServer.com
ArtistServer.com provides music hosting, social networking, and mobile services to more than 13,000 artists and fans. It runs on MediaServer System, a platform for media solutions I've been developing for the last five years. The following is a collection of my accomplishments with ArtistServer in 2005 along with statistics for January.
Current Stats (January 2006)
* Songs: 5,000+ total
* Artists: 4,000+ total
* Members: 9,000+ total
* Ringtones: 100 total
* Visits: 27,045
* Pageviews: 121,436
* Total Visitors: 19,363
TIME Magazine lists ArtistServer.com as one of the "Top 20 Music Sites on the Web"
* November 21, 2005
* http://www.time.com/time/2005/onlinemusic/4.html
Created and Launched an mp3 ringtone transfer tool supporting the following:
* SMS or MMS message with a link to the mp3 ringtone
* SMS or MMS message with link to a WAP Download page
* MMS to phone, ringtone as attachment
* Download to Computer, send to phone
Created and Launched a WAP 2 xHTML MP site - currently in BETA
* main Website identifies mobile devices and routes to mobile.ArtistServer.com
* mobile site supports ringtone downloads
* mobile site may support song downloads, but my phone is limited
RSS enabled ArtistServer.com, providing feeds for
* Site News
* New Song Reviews, Song Posts, and Blog Posts
* New Songs by Genre
* Top 40 by Genre - 7 day chart and 30 day chart
* New Songs and Song Reviews- per artist
* New Blog posts - per artist/member
Created and launched a Station and Playlist System supporting the following:
* multiple search methods, for playlist building
* AudioFeeds - also known as PodCasts, or RSS with enclosures
* XSPF support – a standard for playlists
* XSLT - fully styled feed to improve technology uptake
Created and launched a complete 'tag' system supporting the following:
* tag clouds - clustering of tags with relational sizes based on use
* tags added to: songs, news, blogs, playlists
* relational design - each tag exists only once in the system
* multi word tags - most sites only support single words, like del.icio.us
Created and launched a Friend networking system supporting the following
* acceptance settings - set to auto-accept, approval or deny
* approval process - allows you to include a message to the requesting person
* reciprocation option - you accept a friend, then an option to send an invite back
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